Responding employers expect to hire 3.4 percent more interns in 2017 than they did in 2016.

Co-op hiring is also expected to see greater gains as employers anticipate hiring 6.3 percent more co-ops in 2017 than they did in 2016.

The most widely used and most important criteria that employers use to select the target schools at which they recruit interns and co-ops are the location of the school, the majors offered, the perceived quality of their programs, and the employer’s past recruiting experience with a particular school.